Laytime
Dev · For partner review

Maritime claims, resolved properly.
At 1/10 the cost. In 1/3 the time.

An AI-powered claims platform for demurrage disputes under $20,000 — at top-tier maritime legal quality. Backed by Interlegal's 30-year archive.

$3-5B Demurrage written off every year
30 yrs Interlegal archive depth
7-14 d Binding Expert Determination

Sub-$20k claims are systematically abandoned.

LMAA Small Claims Procedure minimum cost is around $15,000 in fees. Top-tier maritime firms need $3-7k just to assess a claim. The result: shipowners and charterers write off the long tail of demurrage — billions every year.

$15k+

Minimum LMAA SCP cost. Uneconomic below $25k claims.

$3-7k

What a top-tier firm needs to charge just to assess one claim.

~30%

Share of demurrage disputes under $20k. Currently unserved.

Three services, one platform.

Together they cover both sides of every dispute — and the small questions in between.

Tier S1
Specialist Opinion
$250 / consultation
24-hour turnaround

A senior maritime counsel opinion on a single question. "Is this NOR valid?" "Should we pursue?" Lawyer-reviewed, AI-researched.

  • Written opinion, 30-min senior time
  • i-law and Westlaw citations
  • No follow-on commitment required
Tier S2
Full Claim
Sub + 12-18% contingency
48h to first demand letter

End-to-end claims handling: parse documents, calculate laytime, draft demand letter, negotiate, settle. Owner pays only when we recover.

  • Deterministic laytime engine
  • Demand letter on Interlegal letterhead
  • Negotiation rounds + settlement
  • 4 quality gates · senior approved

Why Interlegal — and only Interlegal — can win this market.

Anyone can subscribe to Claude. The moat is not the AI. The moat is 30 years of maritime outcomes that nobody else has — and nobody else can buy.

Outcomes

Settlement percentages by port, by charter form, by charterer. Thousands of closed matters. Senior partner judgement encoded in real settled outcomes.

Exceptions

Which exception clauses held in which jurisdictions. Which Gencon variants hide what risk. Black Sea, Mediterranean, Bosphorus — port-specific practice.

Counterparties

Internal register of charterers. Who settles fast at 60%, who fights every claim to the bar, who pays only after arbitration is filed.

Authority

30-year reputation in maritime. Recognised by P&I clubs, brokers, owners. Trust that takes decades to build — and minutes to use.

A workflow built around lawyer review — not around the model.

Laytime calculation is deterministic Python, not an AI guess. The model parses documents, drafts the prose, and surfaces case law. Every artefact is reviewed by a junior and approved by a senior before anything leaves the firm.

Step 01

Intake

Drag SOF and charterparty. Or forward an email. Free first assessment.

Step 02

Parse + calculate

OCR, structured extraction, deterministic laytime engine. Engine version recorded.

Step 03

Lawyer reviews

Junior reviews AI output side-by-side with source. Senior approves before sending.

Step 04

Negotiate · settle

Demand letter, counter-arguments, settlement agreement. E-signed in-portal.

Four gates. No claim leaves the system without all four.

External quarterly benchmark against an independent HFW-level senior on 20 cases certifies top-tier parity. If we fall below — root cause, fix, re-test, then continue.

01

Schema validation

Pydantic-validated extraction. Bad input never reaches the engine.

02

Engine sanity

Deterministic Python laytime calculator, cross-checked by an independent model.

03

Junior review

Mandatory side-by-side review of every artefact. Edits captured as training signal.

04

Senior approval

Mandatory in Year 1 on every claim. 20% sampling after maturity. Audit-logged.

Resolve the long tail.
Without the long bill.

The market for sub-$20k maritime claims has no proportionate forum today. Laytime is that forum — backed by the firm with the only archive that matters.